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5 per cent, discpunt to all users of Periodical Tickets, ‘J. R. HOLMES, . . . . v Proprietor, MACON, GEORGIA, DARK REPUBLICAN POLITICS. I Appreciated Commendation. PRICE, SI.50 A TEAR, IN ADVANCE. Published Ertry Thursday Morning; Jr*. H. HODQES, Editor and Publisher Perry, Thursday, February 12. The fruit orop in this state is now in a critical stage. Warm weather now and a freeze later may prove disastrous. A transfer station for the Ma con street railway will be construct ed at the intersection of Ootton Av enue and First street. Sbnor Morohan has been accept ed at Madrid as the Cuban minister to Sfiain, and the flag of the new re public has been unfurled at the cap ital of the former sovereign of Cuba. Senator Hanna is now regarded as a candidate for the republican nomination for the presidency,' and his bill to pension the ex slaves, is accepted as a bid for the negro vote. A steamship reaching San Fran cisco last Sunday brought the dowb that a great tiual wave killed one thousand people and devastated eighty islands of the Sooiety group in the Southern sea on January 15th. Bolivia and Brazil have deoided to submit to arbitration their con flicting claims to sovereignty to a aootion of territory called Aore. War between the two republics has been threatened. - ? A local option law concerning the sale of liquor was passed by the. Tennessee house of representatives last Friday, and it is said the faot , startled the liquor interests through out the state. The blockading of Venezuelan ports by the European allies is at par with the old English law under whioh debtors were imprisoned— placing the debtor where he oannot earn anything with whioh to pay the debt. Editor Hearst of New York is now regarded as the labor oandidate ior the demooratio nomination for the presidency, and systematic ef forts are being , made throughout the country to create and strength- N on political Bentiment in his favor, ihitsr In the United States there are About 5,000,000 -‘farms, of which 3,- .000,000 produce corn. It is oalou- lated that the average coBt of culti vating and hijirveptiug an aore of corn is $5.73, making the total cost of corn oulture in the United States $17,190,000. At a meeting of Maoon business men last Friday night it was deci ded that there will be an agricultu ral and industrial fair at the Central City next autumn. Further, there will be an effort to induce the Agri- eultural Sooiety to join the Maoon people in making this the Georgia state fair of 1903. \ A new fruit farm .of several hun dred aores is bBing established in Taylor county near Butler by Messrs. J. H. Baird of Fort Valley Valley, B. H. Watson of Macon and JesBd H. Hall, superintendent of the Southwestern railroad. The f.u t o. - chords in Georgia will be increased by several thousand acres this year. RopiNo, the Italian anarchist who attempted to assassinate King Leo pold last November, was placed on trial at Brussels last week. He de clared that modern, sooiety wab the •cause of all evil, and that the King was selected beoause he was the .highest representative of sooiety. Rubino also .declared that he had planned to kill several other mon- arohs, inoluding Ring Edward of JSngland. In introducing a bill in the senate to pension ex slaves, Senator Hanna is guilty of decidedly shady politics. With Senate Hanna polities is a Bus iness affair, and his policy seems to be that anything worth having is worth buying. Also, that it is cor rect for others to do the paying, For many years the eleotion of re publican presidents and republican majorities in AongreBs has been prac tically bought by men an<| corpora tions who control much money, and the buyers .have been re-imbursed through class legislation in aocord with their Monopolistic desires, thus making them willing to repeat the vote-buying process. Seeing that Roosevelt was gaining favor with the negro politicians, with whom the balance of power in repub lican conventions has often rested, Hanna makes a bid for negro influ ence with this bill. Just now we will not discuss the demerits of the measure, feeling cer tain it will never beoome a law, but merely give.below what our Wash ington correspondent say about the the bill and its author's motive: “Senator Mark Hanna has intro duced in the Senate a bill whioh, be cause of its barefaced purpose of catohing be negro vote and offsett ing the negro appointments of Pres ident Roosevelt, would be ludicrous were it Dot capable of being made the means of defrauding thousands of ignorant and trusting people. The bill proposes to pension every ex slave, and the relatives of such ex slaves as have elder members of thejr families dependent on them. The pensions are to vary from $4 per month for Blaves under 50 to $15 per month for slaves 70 and over. Moreover, bounties are to be paid to such as prove eligible for pensions, ranging from $100 for those agi d 50' to $500 for those 70 and over. As soon as the bill was introduced, Mr. Hanna waB seen by your correspondent and frankly ad mitted that he had no intention of urging the measure and never ex pected it to beoome a law. When asked why he had introduced it, he said he had done so at the request of a^ftiend and merely wished to be accommodating. Asked if his friend was going to be his campaign man ager in 1904, Mr. Hanna refused to answer. Commissioner Ware when seen the next day, said that the Hanna bill would almost bankrupt the government if it were to beoome a law. Evidence as to who were and who were not ex-slaves would be practically impossible to prooure, and the law would be made the ex ouse for voting thousands of private pensions to negroes by legislators anxious to secure the negro vote. “While Senator Hanna’s pension bill is obviously a bid for negrojsup- port in the next national convention, its worst feature is the end to which it will be put by unscrupulous per sons. Senator Mason introduced a similar measure some years ago, and it is estimated that certain “educa ted negroes” who formed the “Ex- slaves Federation” collected from the negroes in the Bouth ud wards of $200,000 for registry, representing that registry by the association would insure to them the benefits of the proposed pensions as soon as the law passed. The bill, as do all meas ures introduced in oongress, bore the legend, “Read twioe and refer red to the oommittee,” etc., and it was represented to the negroes that having been read twice, it would re quire but one more reading, and they must lose no time in becoming enrolled. The “Federation” was fi nally barred from the use of the mails,” It is reported' from Columbia, S. G., that the dispensary system of that state is about to be the cause os a political scandal. It is said ihat a large distillery at Columbia is practically owned by managers of the dispensary system, and that a proposed law would reduce the prof its of the distillery while increasing the profits of the local dispensaries. One legislator declared that he had been approached with a proposition intended as a bribe to influence his vote in opposition to the proposed legislation. The bill was defeated. Roosevelt has again declined ,to act as arbitrator of the Venezuelan muddle. In this decision the presi dent has acted wisely, in that it would be emphatically improper for him to decide a question in whioh this country is interested, directly or indirectly. The claims of the European allies against Venezuela should ^arbitrated by an absolute ly impartial'tribunal. In the mean time the blockade of Venezuelan ports should be lifted, in order that the government of that republic may collect funds with which to pay the debts claimed, J While striving earnestly to make the Home Journal a welcome visitor to the home of every subscriber, oc- jcasional commendation is a positive incentive to greater effort on thiB line. Last Monday the following note was received from a subscriber—for merly of Houston—residing in sm other section of the state: “I failed to get last Thursday's paper. Kindly mail me this copy. When the Home Journal fails to come, I feel as though I had lost something very important.” We gratefully appreciate such commendation, and will strive con tinually to deserve it. With us it is a business to print a paper that car ries pleasure and profit to its read ers. We earnestly ask for the cordial co-operation of all patrons in ex tending its circulation. All readers are requested to furnish items of lo cal news. 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